The Association for the Garden of the Righteous of Milan, in the assembly of 6th February 2009 chose the first exemplary figures to be honored by the dedication of a tree. The Guarantors' Committee, gathered on 23rd February, unanimously approved of the choice.

The Association is formed by Milan's Commune, by the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee - Gariwo and by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.
By the Statute, the President of the Association is Milan's Mayor and Gabriele Nissim was appointed as its Vicepresident.

The Guarantors' Committee is presided over by the President of the Communal Council Mr. Manfredi Palmeri and its members are:
The Office of Presidency of the Communal Council with 4 members appointed by the President (Davide Corritore, Stefano Di Martino, Andrea Fanzago and Claudio Santarelli),
The President of the Culture Committee (MIchele Mardegan),
4 outstanding characters of the Milanese and national cultural community, chosen by the Assembly (Francesco Cataluccio, Riccardo Chiaberge, Piero Ostellino and Vittorio Parsi).

Inscriptions carved on the memorial stones

To the Italian "Righteous among the Nations"honored in Yad Vashem for rescuing the Jews during the Shoah

To Pierantonio Costa- Italian Consul in KigaliHe saved numerous lives during the genocide in Rwanda

To Hrant Dinkassassinated in Istanbul for defending the memory of the Armenian genocide in Turkey

To Anna Politkovskayaassassinated in Moscow for denouncing the massacres of civilians in Chechenya

To Dusko Kondorassassinated in Bijelijna for denounced the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina

To Khaled Abdul Wahabhe saved a group of Jews during the Shoah in Madhia in Tunisia

Further insights on the Web

The Garden of the Righteous in Milan (Monte Stella)

against all occurrences of genocide

On January 24 2003, in an area of the Monte Stella hill park in Milan, we inaugurated the Garden of the Righteous worldwide, run by an association set up on purpose by the Milan City Hall together with the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities and the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee-Gariwo.Over the years we have honoured exemplary figures of moral resistance from Rwanda, Latin America, Bosnia, the European countries torn by Nazi and Communist regimes, from Tunisia, Russia, and Iran.